All Letters to the editor articles – Page 27
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Exam revision
You report (News April 8) that the Architects Registration Board may lose £41,000 of income from its prescribed examination.
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Healthcare sets the precedent
Architects can and should be at the front in delivering procurement cost reductions in the school sector (News April 15).
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Latin quarters
Perhaps Roger Scruton should take a drive along the A35 and see the latest part of Poundbury – multistorey blocks of poor classicism with knobs on.
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Standard bearer
Your article “Cabe’s BSF design standards ’did not work’, says James” (bdonline April 8) comments on the effectiveness of Cabe in the BSF programme.
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Business plan
In asking how business and ethics can be introduced into architectural education, Alan Brookes (Letters April 8) poses a pertinent question. However, disparaging generalisations as to the motivations of teaching staff will not help in finding the answer.
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Over down under
In Australia standard templates were rolled out for the Building the Education Revolution, which were based on years of research into functional and environmentally responsive classroom and ancillary facilities with standardised materials and production methods to achieve cost certainty.
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OpinionMore than the sum of its parts
Broadgate is the unique example in the Square Mile of a large but coherent urban development that has become an integral extension of the City at this point. This should be treated as whole and not as separate buildings.
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OpinionAll over the shop
I agree with the views expressed by Alex Morton of the Policy Exchange (“Should we turn run-down high streets into housing?” Debate March 25)
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A new dimension
The problem isn’t just that people are not ready for bim, but that bim tools aren’t ready for any kind of maturity yet (News April 1).
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OpinionThe realities of education
How exactly would Ben Addy (Debate March 11) achieve his proposal to introduce business and ethics into architectural education?
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OpinionThe heat is on
After reading the Haringey Passiv Terrace story (Technical March 25), I can only assume your reporting of the three-bedroom terrace refurbishment costing £150,000 is a typo.
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OpinionLast year's model
Further to your front page item about a model looking for a new home (News March 25), from experience, I can say that architects and developers often mistook our East Midlands model-making workshop for the Big Yellow Box Company.
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Paying the price
However welcome, it comes as some surprise to see the editor of BD, who recently supported Gove’s ludicrous assertion that architect’s were “milking the system” on the BSF programme, now lamenting the fact that architects’ fees are “suicidal”, students’ fees are “dirt cheap” and architects’ salaries need to increase “significantly” ...
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Get behind your local centre
As a practising architect based in the North-east region and a board member of Northern Architecture, the architecture centre for the North-east, I wish to urge practices across the country to support their local architecture centres, which are facing challenges with the demise of their Cabe funding (News March 18).
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OpinionCrummy Brum
The situation in Birmingham is a fiasco (“Mecanoo’s library is disgraceful, says Madin” News March 25). The council don’t know what they’re doing and the fine citizens couldn’t care less what gets torn down and what gets thrown up in its place – a tragic vignette of what’s happened to ...
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Righting the copy
It was I, not AHMM, who took issue with Matthew Darbyshire’s unlawful use of my photographs (Boots March 25), as I would with any other commercial organisation attempting to profit from an unpaid use of copyright material.
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Global education
In our experience, registration boards are the main obstacle to realising any significant global portability for architectural qualifications (Letters March 18)